Emotional Distress and Risky Behaviors in Asian Youth

亚洲青少年的情绪困扰和危险行为

• 批准号: 6589139
• 负责人: MAYUMI A WILLGERODT
• 金额: $ 8.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-30 至 2005-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6589139
• 关键词: Asian Americans; Chinese American; Filipino; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; child behavior; clinical research; culture; depression; emotional crisis; family structure /dynamics; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human data; longitudinal human study; mathematical model; mental disorder prevention; peer group; racial /ethnic difference; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The applicant's long-term goal is to develop community based, family focused, culturally appropriate prevention programs designed to address emotional distress and risky behaviors in Asian American (AA) adolescents. To achieve this goal, a focused research career development plan is proposed: 1) to learn quantitative research design, methods and analyses such as structural equation modeling, 2) to gain advanced knowledge regarding adolescent psychopathology in Chinese and Filipino adolescents and their families, and 3) to gain theoretical and practical knowledge about research in the local AA community. The applicant's expertise in qualitative research has been critical to understanding the issues underlying poor psychological outcomes in AA adolescents but advanced quantitative research skills are now essential for advancing her research career. The purpose of the proposed accompanying study is to address the gaps in existing research by conducting a cross-cultural examination of family and peer variables associated with emotional distress and risky behaviors, using a nationally representative sample of Chinese, Filipino, and Euro-American adolescents from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The proposed heuristic model posits a relation between family and peer variables and emotional distress and risky behaviors. Because the existing research on AA adolescents is limited and constrained by small sample sizes analysis of the Add Health data set is an efficient way to examine the relations among these variables. The results from the proposed study will facilitate the development of a research application using multiple methods to study the relations among these variables in greater depth among AA adolescents in the Puget Sound area, which, in turn, will guide future intervention studies. The proposed study fits the National Institute of Nursing Research priority area of health promotion for older children and adolescents, and addresses a significant gap in nursing inquiry.

描述（由申请人提供）：申请人的长期目标是开发旨在解决亚裔美国人（AA）青少年的情绪困扰和危险行为的基于社区的，以家庭为中心的适当预防计划。为了实现这一目标，提出了一个重点的研究职业发展计划：1）学习定量研究设计，方法和分析，例如结构方程建模，2），以获取有关中国和菲律宾青少年及其家庭青少年心理病理学的高级知识，以及3），以获取有关AA社区研究的理论和实践知识。申请人在定性研究方面的专业知识对于理解AA青少年心理不良成果的问题至关重要，但是高级定量研究技能现在对于推进她的研究职业至关重要。拟议的随附研究的目的是通过使用全国性代表性的中国，菲律宾和欧美青少年的跨文化检查来解决现有研究的差距，以解决与情绪困扰和危险行为相关的跨文化检查。提出的启发式模型提出了家庭和同伴变量与情绪困扰和风险行为之间的关系。因为对AA青少年的现有研究受到添加健康数据集的小样本量分析的限制和限制，是检查这些变量之间关系的有效方法。拟议研究的结果将促进研究应用程序的开发，使用多种方法研究普吉特声音区域中AA青少年之间这些变量之间的关系，这反过来又将指导将来的干预研究。拟议的研究符合美国国家护理研究研究所为年龄较大的儿童和青少年促进健康促进领域，并解决了护理调查的显着差距。